Bug#546525: check for Maintainer field mismatches between *.changes and debian/control
Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 02:10:21PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I suspect most Debian developers leave DEBEMAIL set all the time. I
>> certainly do. If setting that variable causes pbuilder/cowbuilder to
>> produce erroneous *.changes files, we probably should fix that bug,
>> since otherwise this is going to affect a ton of people.
> I presume there's a misunderstanding here. My wording above was too
> generic: the bug is caused when the DEBEMAIL variable *of*
> */etc/pbuilderrc* is set to something else than the empty string. That
> variable, AFAICT, has nothing to do with the environment variable having
> the same name.
pbuilder is just a bunch of shell scripts. Doesn't it inherit your
environment variables? Hm, I suppose the trip through sudo that most
people do probably fixes that.
I still think pbuilder is using the wrong flag, but yeah, that makes it
much less prevelant.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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